33rd Moortidevi Award 2019 to Vishwanath prasad Tiwari

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• Eminent Hindi author Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari got the 33rd Moorti Devi award 2019 for his work “Asti Aur Bhavati".
• The Moortidevi award is given by  Bharatiya Jnanpith to Indian writers writing in any of the  22 Indian languages mentioned in the Eight schedule of the Indian Constitution .
• The first awardee was C.K.Nagaraja Rao for his work Pattamahadevi Shantala Devi written in Kannada 1983.
• First women awardee was Odia writer   Pratibha Ray in 1985 for her work Yajnasani
• The 31^st awardee was Joy Goswami for his Bengali work Du Dondo Phowara Matro  in 2017.
• No award was given in 2018.